When did Pokémon Ranger come out?

Pokémon Ranger was released on 23 March 2006 for Wii U and Nintendo DS.

Pokémon Ranger (2006) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pokémon Ranger

Pokémon Ranger is an action role-playing video game developed by HAL Laboratory and Creatures Inc. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS video game console. The game was released at various dates…

55 23 March 2006

What Pokémon Ranger is

Pokémon Ranger is an adventure game developed by Creatures Inc. and released in 2006. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Ranger is an action role-playing video game developed by HAL Laboratory and Creatures Inc. and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS video game console. The game was released in Japan, North America, and Australia in 2006 before releasing in Europe in 2007.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Ranger is the 131st of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon PC Master in 2006. Its critic score of 55 is 19 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Pokémon Ranger holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points below the year average. Players rate it 63, 8 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Pokémon Ranger launched on 23 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.

Cheats and codes

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